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Students identify which nets can be folded to make an open box shape.

Answer questions about a table comparing the energy usage and lifespan of different sorts of lights, and use this information to complete a second table to describe advantages and disadvantages of each. Assessment focus: reading a technical table.

Use knowledge of insulation to answer questions about baked Alaska dessert, and how it compares to a chilly bin. Assessment focus: Interpreting diagrams, interpreting analogies, and using knowledge of insulation.

Task: Answer questions about a table comparing the energy usage and lifespan of different sorts of lights, and use this information to complete a second table to describe advantages and disadvantages of each. Assessment focus: reading a technical table.

Students draw a scatterplot of a table of data and describe the relationship between the two variables.

Students calculate the surface area of the sides and top of a cylinder, showing their working.

Students answer questions about fractions of different wholes (units).

This task assesses student ability to find the text features of a science report about one of our native birds. The task is essentially a literacy task in the context of scientific writing, and can also be accessed from the English Bank.

Students calculate fraction division problems and show their working.

Students work out the missing dimension on a rectangle and show how they obtained it using proportional reasoning.

Decide if a described investigation is a fair test, and explain the decision. Assessment focus: identifying fair testing.

Task: Match insects to their adaptations for protection against enemies, and infer two ways stick insects are adapted for their protection against predators. Assessment focus: using observations to make suggestions about survival methods.

Students decide if a graph is suitable to display category data and explain the reasons.

Students identify true and false statements, and provide a description of the most important features of a time series graph.

Students identify which shapes are identical to a given shape that have been rotated.

Students identify which nets can be folded to make an open box shape.

Students show how to divide 3-digit whole numbers into equal sized groups and identify any remainder.

Students show that given a fractional part they can show the whole shape or another fractional part.

Students identify fractions that are greater than a half and explain their reasoning. They also identify how far from half some fractions are and name a fraction closer to half than one given.

Students identify which nets, from a range of options, could fold to make rectangular prisms.

Decide whether the photographed animals are reptiles or not, and justify responses. (A fact file giving the features of reptiles is given.) Answer a question about why scientists have an agreed way of grouping living things. Assessment focus: using science-based classifications.

Task: Answer two questions about melting and two questions about dissolving. Assessment focus: describe and explain melting and dissolving.

Students use number lines to show their understanding of commutativity.

Students decide which arrow on three spinners is most likely to point to white, and explain their reasons.

Students decide which statement about a dot plot is incorrect and explain their reasoning.